Fighting for the Inheritance | Matthew 21:37-39

[00:00:00] We'll truth, Daily. This is Daily Truths with Dave Ahlman

[00:00:07] Everybody welcome back to Daily Truths. I'm really excited about this message. I'm

[00:00:12] going to be preaching the gospel and that's my favorite thing to do in kind of an

[00:00:17] unusual way through the text today. Now I want to talk about first of all how when

[00:00:22] somebody dies people oftentimes who are left behind will fight about the inheritance

[00:00:27] who received this share, who got this, who got that. It's really amazing how many times

[00:00:32] an inheritance becomes divisive. When the book of Matthew chapter 21 and Jesus is told

[00:00:39] the parable of the tenants and remember the tenants or the farmers are the religious leaders

[00:00:44] of the Jewish people down through the years. The vineyard as Jesus explained it is Israel.

[00:00:50] The master is God and as you know as we talked about a couple days ago the prophets,

[00:00:56] those were sent as servants in the vineyard were killed, beaten or stone. We can say that

[00:01:03] John the Baptist was killed that Isaiah was killed. That other prophets including Jeremiah

[00:01:08] were stone. Others were beaten etc. etc. So then Jesus turns it upon himself and says

[00:01:14] this about the religious leaders. Namely the chief priest and the elders because that's who

[00:01:18] he's talking about. In verse 37 he says I love this. Finally he said it's on the master's

[00:01:25] and it's on to them saying they will respect my son but when the tenants of the son

[00:01:30] they said to themselves this is the heir. Come let us kill him and have his inheritance

[00:01:36] or is that word again inheritance and they took him and threw him out of the vineyard

[00:01:41] and killed him. They had rejected the son of God so that we might receive the inheritance.

[00:01:51] You see God the Father used their unwillingness to recognize Jesus as the son of God so that

[00:01:57] we might receive the inheritance of the saints and he did that by allowing his son to be

[00:02:02] nailed to a cross for our sins. Now we know that Jesus didn't have to go. Could have he got

[00:02:09] not of it? Absolutely. Remember when he was a Nazareth and he said today the book by

[00:02:14] Zay is fulfilled in your ears. I'm the son of God. I'm the fulfillment of that prophecy. I'm the Messiah

[00:02:20] and they wanted to take him outside the city and throw him over a cliff but he walked right

[00:02:25] through their midst. Remember when he appeared on resurrection day and he appeared to his disciples

[00:02:31] and he disappeared right in their midst. He walked through, he walked through the walls and then

[00:02:37] suddenly he disappeared. He did the very same thing when he broke bread with the two men on the road

[00:02:43] to amazes. So Jesus willingly could do anything he wanted to do to escape impending doom. So as

[00:02:50] he's standing before Pilate and Pilate wanted to speak, the book of Isaiah says like a lamb is

[00:02:56] led before it's shear as his silent so he did not open his mouth so Jesus didn't say much

[00:03:02] to Pilate when it was brought before her it and here it wanted to see some miracles. He performed

[00:03:07] none when he was in front of K-Face and and the religious leaders. He could have defended himself.

[00:03:13] He could have walked right through their midst. He could have escaped but he didn't. Why?

[00:03:19] Because like a lamb as I said before like a lamb is silent before it's shears so Jesus did

[00:03:24] not defend himself. He could have escaped. He could have disappeared. He could have walked right

[00:03:29] through their midst and so what happened? They rejected the son of God, listed this so that we could

[00:03:36] be received by the Father. He was nailed to the cross so that we would be accepted as airs of God

[00:03:45] the Father. How cool is that? And what do we receive as a result what Christ has done? What's our

[00:03:52] inheritance? It's forgiveness of our sins and a life forever in heaven. K-Face said it best when he

[00:04:02] said this about Jesus before he ever was tried. He said, is better for one man to die for the people

[00:04:09] than for all the nation to perish. He's talking about the nation of Israel and in a backhanded sense

[00:04:16] he was predicting exactly what would happen when Jesus went to the cross that would Jesus would be

[00:04:22] nailed to the cross for us in our place as our substitute as our representative as the one who

[00:04:29] laid down his life for us so that we might receive this glorious, marvelous, unparalleled

[00:04:36] inheritance with the saints. How cool is that? I think of a story where a young man this is back in

[00:04:46] the days when young people both boys and girls were orphans and they were placed in what they call

[00:04:51] an orphanage. And so there was back in the thirties here in the United States and this young man

[00:04:55] came to a church and he was an orphan and the pastor had never met him before and the young man

[00:05:00] comes through the line at the end of the service. And the pastor said, I don't recognize you son,

[00:05:06] who's son are you? And the young boy kind of looked down and kind of shuffled his feet a little

[00:05:11] bit and all of a sudden it dawned on the pastor. Oh my goodness this young man is an orphan. And then

[00:05:16] he slapped him on the back and he said, I know who's son you are. You're a son of God. You're a child

[00:05:22] of the Heavenly Father. My friends, we can say the very same thing. We have the inheritance.

[00:05:33] We have a relationship with God. We have the presence of Jesus with us no matter what we face in life.

[00:05:41] We have pardoned for our sin and reconciliation with the Father. And we're established as airs

[00:05:49] of the kingdom. And someday we're going to receive the glorious inheritance of having a face to face

[00:05:56] and counter with Jesus with the Heavenly Father living in His presence forever. And there won't be

[00:06:04] any fighting about our inheritance. We all receive equal shares. So my friends, it's like God the

[00:06:12] Father is slapping us on the back saying, go claim your inheritance. We've claimed it. It's ours

[00:06:21] and nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. The religious leaders rejected Jesus

[00:06:34] so that we are permanently received by the Father forever and ever and ever.

[00:06:44] Rejoice in that today. And that is today's Daily Truth.